Example sentences of "were [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days think-tanks were intoxicated by the new sophistication they could apply to their work by way of computers , games theory and other novelties . |
| 2 | ‘ I can only assume they were intoxicated by the flood of enthusiasm from central government , and thought they could do anything , even build power stations in the sand , ’ he says . |
| 3 | The three young Wokingham Blacks were intoxicated by the thought of easy money and the following week were on their way to a rendezvous in London . |
| 4 | Ramsey 's father and mother were nauseated by the jingoism . |
| 5 | Interestingly , however , the SD went on to note that after unusually large audiences , prompted by heavy propaganda , had attended the film at the outset , the numbers rapidly dropped off , and there were comments that the film would bring nothing new , that people had had enough of the Jewish theme , and that many were nauseated by the depiction of ritual slaughter scenes — some fainting , and others leaving the cinema in disgust . |
| 6 | Fortunately for Hippisley , the body was never found , although vast areas of nearby Lambourn Woods were excavated by the townsfolk . |
| 7 | Some 46 years after its fiery end , the remains of Spitfire R6644 were excavated by the Malvern Spitfire Team , the parts restored and a memorial to the pilot erected . |
| 8 | The field-worker was a captive audience to whom members of the force could display their competence when riding around Easton in a police vehicle , and conversations were punctuated by policemen pointing out significant sites and personnel . |
| 9 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 10 | The Middle Ages were punctuated by a series of earlier revivals usually centred round courts like those of Charlemagne and Frederick II . |
| 11 | Kuhn argued that the comparatively long periods of normal science were punctuated by crises when the existing paradigms broke down and a new paradigm , and eventually orthodoxy , would become established ; the Copernican revolution was a prime example of this . |
| 12 | It is much more likely that the periods we call constant saw some small changes and the intervening periods , although generally of more rapid fall , were punctuated by minor stillstands . |
| 13 | Clare had led Carolyn along endless humming corridors , whose walls were punctuated by closed doors . |
| 14 | Handwritten to his closest friends , associates and fans , the letters , together with cards and notes , were traced by an Anglo-Australian company preparing a two-hour television documentary — provisionally called Private Presley — to be screened worldwide next year . |
| 15 | Her brother Mark broke the news after they were traced by Canadian police . |
| 16 | Calls made from it were traced by police to the homes of witnesses due to give evidence in trials on Tyneside . |
| 17 | All I could see were a pair of white legs wrapped round a creaking great torso and the royal arse going up and down like a pair of bellows whilst the ‘ Oohs ’ and ‘ Ahs ’ were chorused by Henry 's groans of lustful delight . |
| 18 | And if he were propelled by such categorical imperative to fail , he could not reek loveableness out of every pore … |
| 19 | In a pattern of development which took the form of a circus containing a garden at the centre , with roads radiating towards the cardinal points , the land was divided into small plots which were developed by various builders between 1843 and 1850 . |
| 20 | Johannesburg station was designed specifically to separate the races as the full-blown policies of apartheid were developed by the Nationalist government in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 21 | Though pharmacologists now know how the present antimalarials work , quinine was initially based on a folk remedy and the rest were developed by producing chemicals and testing their effects . |
| 22 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 23 | Because employers can increase their profits when they have greater control over the labour process it has been suggested that in the USA internal ‘ job ladders ’ of promotion and wage benefits were developed by managements within some large firms as a deliberate control strategy to counter unionism and increase the dependence of workers on their companies . |
| 24 | They were developed by Gerver ( personal communication ) and his tests were slightly adapted for our purposes , but consisted of a tape-recorded message which had errors inserted in the story ( error detection ) or had whole words omitted ( cloze ) . |
| 25 | The revolutionary implications of utility were developed by radicals , and it is the interconnexion of governmental and radical reform that we must finally consider . |
| 26 | The earliest forms of writing were developed by and confined to very limited specialist ( usually official ) groups ; they were later somewhat extended in continued urban development and in merchant trade . |
| 27 | the industry standard control codes for dot matrix printers were developed by Epson and virtually all software packages and most dot matrix printers either follow or improve on these codes . |
| 28 | Perhaps it should come as no surprise that a sister product to the established First Word Plus should rate so highly , both were developed by GST , when you consider that word processing under a graphical environment such as GEM is almost the same as simple desktop publishing . |
| 29 | Patterns like the ‘ fix ’ and the ‘ fiddle ’ were developed by skilled workers , in piecework systems where considerable discretion was retained on the shopfloor . |
| 30 | After they died , many kung fu systems were developed by their students , and over the next few hundred years more branches of these styles , barely recognizable from the original forms , came into being . |